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Web hosting built for Ireland
What actually differs when your order comes from Ireland: the local domains we can register, what your card is charged, the distance to our servers, how tax applies, and which payment methods we still can't accept.
Local Differences
Buying from Ireland, point by point
This isn't a template with the country swapped in. Each line below shifts with where you're ordering from.
Local domain endings
We can't register your national ending just yet — but as an EU resident, a .eu is open to you here.
Prices in your currency
Figures display in EUR; the card is billed in USD. The conversion happens at your bank, which may add a fee of its own.
How far our servers sit
About 5–15 ms for the round trip. Instant. For a British or Irish audience, nothing beats it.
Support on your clock
GMT/IST — effectively the same clock as our team. First replies target 2 hours in English, day or night.
Local Endings
What your national ending costs
Numbers pulled directly from our live price list — no rounded estimates.
| Domain ending | Year one |
|---|---|
| .eu | $8.99yours to register as an EU resident |
See the full price list — every one of the 65 endings we offer.
Unique to Ireland
The detail that only applies here
Dublin sits about 10 ms from our London servers — hardly any city on the planet is closer — so a site here runs essentially as it would on Irish hosting. The gap we state plainly: we do not sell .ie. As an EU resident you can register .eu, which we do offer, and .com remains the sensible default.
Operating in Ireland
Beyond price and ping
The parts of running a site here that a plan comparison never covers.
Close on the map, outside the bloc on paper
Irish buyers get the best of the distance story and the most awkward version of the legal one. Physically, London is about as near as an overseas origin gets. Legally, the United Kingdom is a third country: order from Ireland and your site's data is processed outside the EU, which is a fact worth writing into your own privacy notice rather than discovering during an audit.
For a brochure site, a portfolio or a small store, this is administrative rather than difficult — our data processing agreement covers the transfer and names the processing location. Where it does become a real blocker is a project whose impact assessment demands EU-only storage, typically public sector work or health data. If that is your brief, take us out of the running now and save yourself the review cycle.
- Processing happens in London, so the transfer belongs in your privacy notice and your records of processing
- Our DPA states the location plainly instead of burying it in a subprocessor annexe
- No .ie from us — as an EU resident you can take a .eu, and .com carries no eligibility test at all
At Checkout
What checkout accepts — and what it can't
Where our supported methods diverge from your country's habits — flagged up front, not discovered at payment time.
What we accept
Credit or debit cards from Visa, Mastercard and American Express, issued in Ireland or any other country, as long as the card is enabled for international payments. Stripe processes the charge, so card numbers never reach our servers.
Not supported yet
Irish cards clear without drama. The missing piece is PayPal — a first-order favourite for some buyers here, and one we cannot yet accept.
Full detail on payment methods and how we handle currency.
Asked and Answered
What customers in Ireland want to know
Does ordering work from Ireland?
Absolutely. Visa, Mastercard and American Express cards issued in Ireland are all accepted, and provisioning fires automatically the second payment clears — no manual approval step, no need to be anywhere near the UK. Prices display in EUR so you can judge the cost; the actual charge reaches your card in USD.
Which payment methods are common in Ireland, and do you accept them?
Here is the honest version rather than the sales one. Irish cards clear without drama. The missing piece is PayPal — a first-order favourite for some buyers here, and one we cannot yet accept. The one method that always works is a card enabled for international payments. Better to know that now than after an hour spent comparing plans.
How fast will pages load for visitors in Ireland?
Our hardware runs in London, roughly 5–15 ms away. Instant. For a British or Irish audience, nothing beats it. For a first-time visitor pulling a cached page, the gap barely registers — an edge node near them can serve it. Where distance does show up is logged-in activity: the WordPress dashboard, a checkout, anything uncacheable, because each of those actions makes the full London round trip. Our infrastructure page breaks down what a CDN speeds up and what it cannot touch.
Will tax be added to an order from Ireland?
Ordering from inside the EU may mean VAT applies. When it does, the figure is calculated and shown at checkout before any money leaves you — nothing gets added after the fact. Buying as a VAT-registered business? Enter your number and the reverse charge handles the rest.
Do I need a UK address to hold an account?
No. The company running things is British — Vitalcare at Home Ltd, registered in England and Wales under number 15098204, verifiable on the public Companies House register — yet buying hosting involves no residency check and no business-registration check. An order from Ireland processes exactly like one from London.
What happens if the plan doesn't suit me?
You get 30 days on hosting plans and 7 on reseller plans to change your mind. That is enough time to launch a real site and benchmark it against your own traffic rather than trusting our numbers. Not convinced? Request your money back. The single exception is domain registrations — the registry charges us the instant a name goes live, so those are non-refundable.
Run your own test from Ireland
You get thirty days to benchmark it against your real audience. If the numbers fall short, claim your money back.
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